On 07/20/2012 08:01 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Hans speaks about something like this
\startone … \starttwo … \stopone … \stopone
where environment ranges overlap.
And to explain that a bit: it's not merely "ugly." If all you want is the printed book, you don't care about the ugliness and simply code this way to get the desired output. However, we are in the 21st century. We should be beyond the point where a critical edition is the printed text, we should think of the typeset result as just one way of representing the logical structure of the edition. With a syntax as the one Wolfgang shows above, it is difficult for most parsers to understand what is meant. Which means most ways of representing such a structure will fail because it's not a consistent logical construct. And yes, as Pablo pointed out, TEI itself hasn't reached a clear conclusion on such points, and they are specialists who have been working on these problems for quite a while... Thomas